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CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
CBS Broadcasting, Inc. (CBS; originally the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network owned by Paramount Global through the CBS Entertainment Group. Along with ABC and NBC, CBS is one of the traditional "Big Three" American television networks.
From the 1950s to the 1980s, during the network era of American television, there were three commercial broadcast television networks – NBC (the National Broadcasting Company, "the Peacock Network"), CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System, "the Eye Network"), ABC (the American Broadcasting Company, "the Alphabet Network") – that due to their longevity and ratings success are informally ...
CBS Radio is one of the oldest units within CBS Corporation, and has been around since 1928. [2] However, the actual CBS Radio Network (now CBS News Radio) was launched in 1927, when CBS itself was known as United Independent Broadcasters. [3] Columbia Records later joined in and that company was renamed the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting ...
William Samuel Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990) [1] was an American businessman, primarily involved in the media, and best known as the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States.
CBS Corporation was an American multinational media company with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production.It was split from Viacom on January 1, 2006, alongside an entirely new Viacom; both CBS Corporation and the second Viacom were controlled by National Amusements, a theater company owned by billionaire Sumner Redstone.
CBS Radio traces its roots to CBS's predecessor, United Independent Broadcasters, founded in 1927 with 47 network affiliates. The next year, Columbia Records invested in the radio network, which was named the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System. Eventually, the record company pulled its backing from the struggling web.
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS. ... the Columbia Broadcasting System began making regular radio news broadcasts, ...